1st Edition

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 5

By Lisa Zunshine Copyright 2008
414 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

1808 Pages
by Routledge

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

Cerberus (ed.), The Theatrical Monthly Th eatrical Reporter Inquisitor; or, Literary Mirror The Theatrical Inquisitor, and Monthly Mirror; Monthly Theatrical Reporter; Charles Newton, Studies in the Science and Practice of Public Speaking, Reading & Recitation; John Brown, The Stage: A Poem; Leman Thomas Rede, The Road to the Stage (1827); George Grant, An Essay on the Science of Acting: By a Veteran Stager; Editorial Notes

Biography

Lisa Zunshine